Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Swalwell said he leads all freshman Democrats in bills passed with one.

CONGRESS | 15TH DISTRICT | Offering fun facts and figures meant to add beef to his flimsy patty of work has been a hallmark of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s first term. In fact, he includes a running scoreboard on his congressional Web site boasting to have flown over 350,000 miles, attending 800 meetings in the district and holding 13 town hall meetings since January 2013. He offered another superfluous fact last Saturday in Alameda.

“I have passed more bills than any freshman Democrat in the Congress,” Swalwell told the Asian Pacific American Democratic Caucus. “It’s a divided Congress, but no other freshman Democrat has passed more bills than me. Now, only three others have passed a bill in Congress, but I am working to stand up for this community.”

Translation: Swalwell is currently in a four-way tie for most bills passed by rookie Democrats in the House with a grand total of one. President Obama signed legislation authored by Swalwell last month allowing donations to the Filipino typhoon relief fund be included on taxpayers’ 2013 returns.

Other freshman passing bills in the 113th Congress include Rep. Dennis Heck's (D-Wash.) Reverse Mortgage Stabilization Act of 2013 that deleted a period and added “and” to existing legislation, in addition, to a paragraph urging the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to improve fiscal safety for mortgagees.

The uninspiring list of legislation is no surprise given the entire Congress in 2013 passed the least number of bills in U.S. history. Incidentally, Swalwell's predecessor, Pete Stark, also passed just one piece of legislation during his first term in 1973-1974.

Big Shot Nick, If you had ten professional campaign managers and you gave them each $10,000 and told them they had to bet it all on the winner in the district race, 10 out of 10 would place their money on Swalwell.

Now, that is not how their politics might lean, but that is how they would bet if forced to put their $10,000 on one candidate.

Wouldn't it be nicer if Swalwell's first bill benefited his America constituents? Yeah Eric, I know some of your constituents are Filipino and it benefits their relatives and makes you feel all warm and fuzzy about yourself.

How about benefiting my unemployed husband who lives in your district instead of voting to cut off his benefits like you did? Shame on you!

Since Eric has authored no significant legislation in Washington, I'll take Ellen Corbett who has authored significant legislation to help the environment, women, consumers, seniors, children, education, etc.

I'm amazed at the ignorance of some of these posters - it is extremely hard to get a bill signed into law at the federal level - ask BLee, Honda or MCcNerney how many bills they have signed. It is much easier at the state level.

Swalwell is doing a great job with wide support from labor, Silicon Valley, and individual supporters. Swalwell has raised about $275,000 per quarter as opposed to Corbett's $38,000. I guess 20 years of her bills and votes aren't worth much!!

The only thing Swalwell is better at is lies as Tavares has pointed out on many occasions. Oh, and I'm not counting all his flip-flops as lies. Voting for Ellen Corbett because I trust her more. Now we're agreed!

We'll take Ellen Corbett who cares about families and ordinary citizens. Then she goes out and authors bill after bill that helps us that work for a living, and bill after bill for those of us who are struggling to make ends meet.

In contrast our current Congressman has authored no bills to help us ordinary citizens. He does try and scare us with terror alerts to compensate for doing nothing to help us. wish Swalwell staffers would quit posting on this blog. At least they don't try and defend his lies. They just try and change the subject.

Swalwell's chances of winning have disappeared with lie after lie. What matters to local voters are articles like the Citizens "Swalwell's Pay To Hire Problem" or Swalwell voting to cut off unemployment benefits to now over 2 million Americans including now over 225,000 veterans and then taking his pay after saying he wouldn't. District voters will vote for Ellen Corbett because this congressman has no feeling for his average constituent.

Swalwell's the one sucking off the treasury and doing nothing for those of us who aren't rich! Ellen Corbett by contrast has authored bill after bill that has helped consumers, seniors, veterans, children, i.e. the average American

We can't support novices either who don't know what they are doing and are in way over their head. That's why we will be supporting Ellen Corbett.

Since Eric has authored no significant legislation in Washington, We'll take Ellen Corbett who has authored significant legislation to help the environment, women, consumers, seniors, children, education, etc. It sounds like you will too.